Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1935 — Page 4

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Lambs Play in Annual ‘Gambols’ Program of Singing and Dancing Comprises Entertainment. BY BEATRICE BE ROAN Tinn H Min i Face Editor Dudley r. gallahul was broadcaster for the ’’Lambs' Gambols of 1335 ” Saturday nigl t at the Columbia Club ballroom. A nice job he did of it. too. and in addition his dancing was no small part of the entertainment. Mr. Gallahue was chairman of the Gambols, also the brain child of

Dr. John Ray Newcomb and Percy H. Weer. Paul R. Matthews, musical director of the Lambs, accompanied the gang smgingtothetun' 1 of his accordion. The pony chorus members, Evelyn Stokely, Evadne Hibben, Dorothy Pantzer. Edith

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Ferriday. Hope Pfafflin and Courtenay Whitaker, were dressed as "little black lambkins.” Hiram W. McKee. Walter J. Hubbard Jr.. Charles A. Rockwood and William H. Stafford Jr., disguised as the Mills Brothers, sang their bit and did ad:. appearing act in favor of the Stephen Foster Hall Negro quartet. Lambs and their guests enjoyed the acts, including the songs of Dorothy Jay Robinson. Mrs. William ft. Sparks and Mrs. Irving M. Fauvre. skits by Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer, Blaine H. M.ller and Mr. Rockwood. the Smith Brothers; Robert Frrriday Jr.. Mr. Pantzer, Mr. Weer and Erison T. Wood Jr., th* Pour Marx Brothers and the •■Continental'* dance by Mrs. Thomas R. Kackley and Carl Vonnegut. Nicholsons Attend Mr and Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Sr., visiting here before Mr. Nicholson takes up his diplomatic duties in Venezuela, were Lambs’ guests. Mrs. Nicholson's pale peach lace gown had a pcplum trimming the back. A brown velvet band beginning at the shoulder line in front tied in a bow at the back at the termination of the bend of lace dividing the decolletage. Rases sprawled over the pattern of Mrs. Robert B Adams’ white lace gown, which had a short jacket with long sleeves, flowing from the armholes in slight dolman effect. A gold clip fastened the jacket in front. Mr. and Mrs. Perry O'Neal were among the guests whom John Gordon Kinghan entertained at dinner in the University Club. Others we e Mr. and Mrs. John Lyman Blish. Seymour; Miss Ann Tyndall, Messrs, j and Mesdames A. Ewing Sirvrlair, Thomas Madden and Robert N. Bowen. Mrs. O’Neal's white chiffon gown flowed m simple graceful lines, with wide folds crossing the shoulder, fastening at the waistline in back and fluttering to the hem. Ornaments or rhinestones and colored stcmes trimmed the corners of the neckline and marked the sash in front. Wears Black Taffeta Over her black taffeta picture dress, Mrs. Henley Holliday wore a waist length white rough crepe jacket which had long bell sleeves. A loop of the material, fastened to two large white buttons, held the jacket together at the waistline. Pointed revers of the black dress stood out over the white jacket. Black and white were combined in Mrs. August Bohlen’s gown. The black velvet skirt was full and gathered at the waistline; white peau and ange formed tiny cuffs of the short sleeves and a tailored collar, ending in a bow at the throat, above a Vneckhne. Folds of pleated grey and orange chiffon crossed the shoulders of Mrs. Harold Tharps grey chiffon gown. The sash of the pleated orange and grey chiffon fell to the floor, and orange and grey shaggy flowers trimmed the neckline in front.

P.-T. A. Notes

Marion County Council of the Pa rent-Teacher Association m.’t today at the Severm. Mrs. Charles Dawson, summer round-up chairman. spoke. Floyd Bass -poke on "Beautifying the School Grounds." The local units responded to roll call with one minute reoprts of unit work. The father members of Pleasant Run P -T. A. will have charge of the program at the meeting at 7:45 Friday at the school. H. J. Bridgins. dramatic chairman, will direct a play. "Just Like a Woman." New Augusta P.-T. A. will sponsor a motion picture show? Friday night at the Community Hall. The program will include a fivereel film. "Americano." a two-reel comedy and a two-reel travelogue. Jacob Seitz, chairman of the wavs and means committee of the William H Evans School, announces supper at the school Friday night. Serving will start at 5. Mrs. Edward Litt will have charge of the dining room and Mrs. Joe Williams. kitchen. Mrs. Earl Oakes is president.

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Completes Sceneiy for Childrens Play

Behind the scenes of the Children's Theater we see Mrs. Stanley Shipnes working on a colored window, which she designed of cellophane and paint. She completed the scenery for the first performance of “The Prince and the Pauper ” adapted by Mrs. Horace F. Hill 111, theater chairman. Two more performances will be given at 10:30 and 2:30 Saturday at the Civic Theater playhouse.

Contract Bridge

Editor's Note—This is the fifth of a series of articles on the Tapel Formula for recognizing and executing a saueeze play. as expounded in E. Hall Downes new book entitled "Soueeze Coups and End Plavs.” BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League IN previous articles I discussed the first three elements in the Tapel formula for re'agnizing and executing a squeeze play. There must be two threats (losers) in different suits for every squeeze. You must assume that only one opponent can guard these two threat suits. You must be able to project the play down to the exact point where the opponent to be squeezed will be in a squeeze position. Now let us turn our attention to what happen? at the squeeze position. The fourth and fifth elements of the Tapel formula are concerned with this very vital point. Two conditions are necessary at the squeeze position. They are: First, you must have a final entry card in the opposhe hand when the squeeze is applied. Second, you miust be able to lead a suit at the ,-queeze position that will force your opponent to be squeezed on his discard.

Let us consider the first of these elements, which is point four in the Tapel formula—the final entry card. When the squeeze is applied you must always have retained a positive entry into the opposite hand and an exit card to that final entry. Now let us see why. Os what use can the squeeze be if you are not able to enter the opposite hand to take advantage of the forced disscard the squeezed opponent has made? In the example above. South has led the heart ten and West is squeezed. He is forced to discard. If you did not have an entry to the spade king-iack in the North hand, West would not be squeezed, because you would not be able to enter the North hand to take advantage of the squeeze against West. If West should discard a spade, you wall then cash the three spade tricks bv finessing the spade jack at the eleventh trick. nun \roU may therefore set down as a definite and positive rule that, m every squeeze, there must always be a positive entry card into the opposite hand after the squeeze has been applied. Asa result, when projecting the play to the squeeze position, you must be extremely careful to retain

Sororities

Miss Betty Hancock will be hostess for a meeting oi Beta Chapter. Phi Theta Delta Sorority, tonight. Miss Dorothy Ann Weber is the recently appointed pledge captain. Collegianna Club will meet at 8 tomorrow night at the home of Miss Lenora Neeiieman, 3539 College-av. Miss Margaret Seitz wrill be hostess for a meeting of Beta Chapter. Sigma Deita Zeta Sorority, and their guests tonight. Misses Caroline Maas and Clf.ra Belle Woolery will assist. f Luncheon Given Miss Jacque Lacker entertained members of Theta Tau Psi Sorority at luncheon yesterday. Mrs. E. L. Beanblossom reviewed “Both Your Houses.” Slops Skidding Rugs There's anew material to put under small rugs to keep them from sliding. It's a sort of mesh and it clings to the floor so that the rug goes over it smoothly and can be vacuumed as usual. Good for houses where there are children.

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the positive entry in the opposite hand and also to retain an exit card in that suit in the squeeze hand. This is an element that must never be overlooked. Without it, there can be no squeeze. Sometimes the final entry may be a definite winner, such as the ace in a suit, or the king or queen in a suit when the higher ranking cards have already been played out. Sometimes, as in this example, the final entry may be a finessing situation, because here the spade jack is the final entry. The spade finesse must be taken at all events for you know that if the spade finesse does not work the contract is doomed. So here you are faced with the necessity of assuming that the spade jack is a positive entry to the North hand. Otherwise, there would be no squeeze possibility. In tomorrow's article I shall discuss the last of the five elements in the Tapel formula—the squeeze lead—and at the same time review all the elements. (Copyright, 1935. by NEA. Inc.)

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MOTHERS' CLUB SPONSORS SHOW Fairview Kindergarten Mothers’ Club will present Harry Fowler’s puppet show, “Little Black Sambo,” Wednesday in the University Park Christian Church. Mrs. Lewis Ott Ward has appointed Mrs. George Craighead, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Charles Wilson and Mrs. C. A. Weller. Film to Be Shown Dr. Charles W. Myers, superintendent of the City Hospital, will present a motion picture of a trip through the hospital at the meeting of Marion County Democratic Women's Club at 8 tomorrow in the palm room of the Claypool. Mrs. E. Kirk McKinney, program chairman, will introduce the speaker. Miss Margaret Barragry will entertain with musical numbers, and Mrs. Smiley N. Chambers will preside. Club Luncheon Set Mrs. James W. Putnam, 327 Buck-ingham-dr, will entertain members of the Mac Murray College Club at a 1 o'clock luncheon tomorrow. Mrs. Herscnel Davis will assist the hostess.

Pupils Will Perform at Spring Fete Program Announced for Event Preceding Dance at Athenaeum. Before a dance at the Athenaeum Saturday night, April 6. dancing pupils of Mrs. William Byram Gates, will attend Mrs. Gates' fifth annual spring party, parents and friends will be guests at the dancing program, to be presented by the pupils. Miss Jean Orloff. Mrs. Stewart Ashley Greene and Mrs. Eugene C. Felt will be accompanists for the dancing program. Larry Price and his orchestra will provide music for the dance. The program will be as follows: Overture — Grand March ("March of the Toys”) Victor Herbert "Tanaera" Shubert Alice Greene. Leora Wood, Nancy Tageart, Constance Miller. Barbara Bradley. Jane Williams. Patricia Smith, Alice Boozer. Barbara Klein. Dorothy Sheerin. Jo Ellen Burroughs. Cvnthia Test. Marnev Home and Martha Frances Dunn. "Tarantella" CFurlana’’ from "La. Gioconda") Ponchielli Emily Mac Nab. Julianr.e Hamer. Nancy Briggs. Nancy Ragan. Helen Rudesill and Barbara Brown. Military Tap— Audrey Montrose. Betty Lee Washburn Patricia Mushrush. Alice Gates. Marv Johnson. Annette Lange. Suzanne Moonev. Phyllis Behringer and Martha Lois Adams. Waltz Tap— Margaret Dingley. Frances Dinglev. Harriet Jane Holmes. Anne Holmes and Barbara Brown. "Les Patincurs” ("The Skaters”) . Waldteufel Emily Mac Nab. Helen Rudesill. Nancy Briggs. Jullanne Hamer. Leora Wood. Alice Greene and Martha Frances Dunn. Ballroom Waltz— Doris Woods and Sherwood Fifar. Javanese ("Tambounn Chinois") Kreisler Barbara Brown. Tan Dance— Harriet Jane and Anne Holmes. "Llebesfreud” Kreisler Alice Hollenbac.k Greene. "Cuban F.hythm." Leora Wood and David Smith. "Sevilla" X. Albeniz Barbara Brown. “Vous Dansez Marouise” Lemaire Alice Hollenback Green and Doris Woods "Desert Dance” (Persian March”) -. Johann Strauss Nancy Briggs. Orchstra — "Blue Danube” Strauss Emily Mac Nab. Barbara Brown. Nancy Briggs. Tango— Marybelle Neal. Dorothy Rybolt, Helen Griffith. Sylvia Griffith. Judith Preston. Barbara Noel. Jane Carter, Jerome Noel. William Bvram Gates. Jr.. John Hamer. David Sneers. Hal Benham. Jr.. Donald Test. Jr., and Ward Hackleman. (ai "Prelude” Chopin (b) "Waltz” Brahms Nancy Briggs. Helen Rudesille. Leora Wood Nancy Ragan. Barbara Brown. Emily Mac Nab. Juilanne Hamer. Alice Greene and Martha Frances Dunn. Svnocopated Tap— Nancy Campbell. Ballroom Dance — Barbara Brown and Robert McNeelv.

Campfire Girls

At a taffy pull at the home of Mrs. H. R. Johnson members of Wetohe group of School No. 54 elected officers. They are Jane Cochran, president; Jean Bennison, vice president; Jane Gage, scribe; Jean Katzenberger, treasurer, and Mary Helen Piper, secretary. New officers elected for the Wicowaste group at School No. 61 are Alice Rae McClain, president; Bertha Whiteside, scribe; Irene Reynolds, treasurer; Edith McClain, secretary, and Maxine Archer, vice president. Leader of -the group is Mrs. R. A. Seitz. Officers elected for the new group at the Trinity Lutheran School are Norma Baurmeister, president; Verna Schweir, secretary; Martha Jones, scribe; Olga Stevens, treasurer, and Martha Updike and Mary Stevens, program committee. Mrs. Freda Jones is guardian.

BALL SCHEDULED AT CLUB APRIL 20

Indianapolis Athletic Club ballroom and adjoining parlors will be transformed into a spring garden for the club's “Tulip Time” ball Saturday, April 20, for members and their guests. Louie Lowe’s I. A. C. orchestra will play for dancing from 9:30 until 2, and supper will be served from 10 until midnight. Tables will be arranged in the ballroom only and the reservation list will be limited to 350 persons. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus head the list of hosts and hostesses. An all family event at the club this week will be the annual athletic banquet Friday night. Dinner will be served at 6:30, and following several short talks, athletic awards will be made to boys and girls who have done outstanding w r ork in the club's athletic department during the season.

TEA TENDERED TO HELEN HAYES

Helen Hayes, in Indianapolis during her engagement in ‘‘Mary of Scotland’’ today and tomorrow, was a tea guest of Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson yesterday. Booth Tarkington, in whose plays Miss Hayes has appeared, and Mrs. Tarkington entertained Miss Hayes at tea today. Philip Merivale, Kate Warriner and Adele Carples also were Mrs. Jameson's guests. MEETING SET BY TRI-DELTA GROUP March meeting of Delta Delta Delta AHiance will be held Wednesday at The Cottage, 729 N. Penn-sylvania-st. Mrs. Harry D. Hooley will be in charge of the dinner and meeting, assisted by Mesdames C. C. Crumbaker, James Baird, Hobart Burgan and Francis Mills. Dinner will be served at 6:45, followed by a meeting at which arrangements for the sorority state i luncheon and dance April 6, will be j discussed. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Hooley.

Book Review Set “Phantom Crown,” by Mrs. Bertita Harding will be reviewed by Mrs. E. C. Rumpler at 2 Friday at BannerWhitehill auditorium at a meeting of the Bethany Helpers, womans Bethany Park organization. Mrs. Max Critchfield will sing with Mrs. Carl Switfer, accompanist.

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Leading ticket sales for the card party to be sponsored by Broad Ripple Kindergarten Mothers’ Club April 1 in Banner-Whitehill Auditorium is Mrs. E. S. Barnhill, chairman.

Club Meetings

WEDNESDAY Mrs. S. J. O'Connell will discuss “Life of Blessed Elizabeth Bichier” and Mrs. G. S. Fordercr will talk about "Outstanding Catholic Women of the Twentieth Century” at a meeting of the Irvington Catholic Woman's Study Club with Mrs. O. N. Allen, hostess. Display of quilts, coverlets and hooked rugs will be seen by members cf the Wednesday Afternoon Club at the Altenheim, with Mesdames Fred Chastain, Lulu Horne, A. A. McCray, Laura Driver and A. E. Shirley hostesses. Home Economics Club will meet at the home of Mrs. W. J. Marks, 3311 N. New Jersey-st, with Mrs. W. C. Smith assistant hostess. Mrs. J. R. Cavanaugh and Mrs. Maxwell Shaw will be dining room assistants. Officers will be elected. Mrs. Herman Rogge is chairman of the nominating committee. Mrs. Walter Metzler will be in charge of a demonstration. THURSDAY Mrs. J. A. Garrettson, SpinkArms, will be hostess for a meeting of the 1908 Club. “Minutes of the Big Walnut Baptist Church” will be Miss Katharine Layman’s subject for a meeting of the Portfolio Club. Miss Anna Hasselman will present “Pictures of the Past.” The supper committee includes Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Foltz and Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Kautz. Members of the North Side Study Club will meet with Mrs. E. H. Enners. Mrs. William A. Meacham will present the program, FRIDAY Mrs. O. 3. Flick and Mrs. G. C. Klippel will be hostesses for a meeting of the Irvington Fortnightly Club. Mrs. O. S. Moore will discuss "The Motion Picture Industry,” followed by general discussion led by Mrs. F. W. Schulmeyer.

Card Parties

Mothers’ Chorus of School 44 will sponsor a card and bunco party at 1:30 tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Frank Newkom, 1822 Dexter-st, and at 8 at the home of Mrs. Mossett Ulrey, 1926 N. Harding-st. Following a covered dish luncheon at 12:30 Thursday, Mrs. Hazel Uhl, queen of Koran Temple No. 30, Daughters of the Nile, will be hostess for a card party at 2. All games will be played. Group Will Elect Officers will be elected at a meeting of Indianapolis White Shrine No. 6 Thursday night in Castle Hall, 230 E. C}hio-st. Mrs. Mary Konecke will preside. Aid to Be Chosen Mrs. Paul Beard, president of the Neophyte Garden Club- was to appoint committees to direct activities in tree planting, home show and ga.rden institute, at a meeting today at the home of Mrs. Fred Bastian.

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State’s Only Feminine Legislator Talks About Clothes at Style Show Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson Voices Liking’ for Collar and Cuff Sets at Ayres Store Event for Business Women. BY HELEN LINDSAY W r HEN a business woman really has a deep and vital interest in her business, she sometimes forgets that most important of all feminine pastimes, the joy of buying clothes. Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, Indiana's only woman legislator, admitted thus Saturday, in a heart to heart talk with other business women in the L. S. Ayres Sc Cos. auditorium. Mrs. Nicholson, addressing women attending a special fashion show for business women, spoke on “Business and Dress.” “I was surprised to find what I thought only a matter of commonsense creating such a furore when I submitted my now famous ’heart

balm’ bill,” Mrs. Nicholson said. “The night before it was presented for the vote I was up late, working on it, and went to b°d to be beset with nightmares of being hissed out of the house when it was presented. “On the way down to the statehouse the next morning I suddenly realized that I had made no particular effort to look well, and really presented a bedraggled appearance. So I stopped in one of the downtown stoics and had an obliging salesgirl attach a frilly white collai and cuff set on my dress. “I am convinced that collar and cuff sets are the most useful and charming style that has been introduced in feminine fashions, for after I acquired that one I really felt that I looked much better.” Mrs. Nicholson advocated quiet good taste in tho

selection of costumes for business women. . _ “Many of you business women have had the same experience I ha\e had in selecting the first offerings of anew mode.” she said. “We ara too busy to change with every whim, and if we take the first offerings we are likelv tic. find that they are mere fads.” Mrs.'Nicholson was costumed in a sheer navy suit, the jacket belt , and worn over a sheer bright red blouse with round tailored collar. Her hat, a straw sailor, as well as her accessoi ies, w ere na\ >. a an a a a Double-Life Dressing Required THE 1935 model of the business woman who is fashionable was aptly described in programs which were distributed to the audience. The books, which bore on the cover a reproduction of a stenographer's shorthand notebook, said of the modern woman of favShion, “She is a fickle jade, who tempers the mode to suit her whims. She leads a double lift , dressed down to a tidy-as-a-tinker trimness for day; dressed up to an ethereal Botticelli-like sweetness for evening. “She will, like as not, top her most somber daytime costume with a saucy red sailor; discard her classic white gloves for chamois yellow ones; be true to the navy only when it is companioned by one, two or three other colors; wear low-heeled shoes, as naive as a little gills, with her most sophisticated man-tailored suit; shun monotone costume harmony as if it were the devil himself; put colors together such as no lady ever has worn before—and make the whole world iike it." Suits, knitted dresses, shirtwaist styles and various tailored styles were shown Outstanding were the man-tailored Langrock suits ana topcoats, exclusive at Ayres, and manufactured for the first time this year for women by the well-known tailors who have costumed Eastern college men for many seasons. A navy reefer coat, with twin pleats at the back to the belted line was shown, worn with low-heeled navy ghillics and tailored stiaw sailor hat. a a a Suits Shown to Be Versatile ADAPTABILITY of unfurred box suits to various occasions was demonstrated in a soft woolen suit of navy, which could be worn with scarfs and sport accessories when a casual appearance was desired, and dressed up with separate furs for other occasions. Suits with capes and fitted jackets were shown. One was in a light beige, checked with brown, skirt and cape of matching fabric, while the fitted jacket was of dark brown woolen. A green scarf was worn tucked in at the neck. When the business girl plays, she dresses as becomingly and femininely as her stay-at-home sisters. Bright prints, soft chiffons and whispering taffeta played their parts in the fashion parade, and frantic shorthand notes were made in the audience to catch the alluring details of each costume. The notes will be put in the office files for future reference.

Manners and Morals BY JANE JORDAN

Jane Jordan has many times offered to answer Questions regarding problems that arise with children, but few parents ask. If the letter below reminds you of some problem of your own, bring it up for discussion! Dear Jane Jordan —I read your column daily, but I never see anything about children. My own son is going on 13 and always has been under a doctor’s care. He is neat in appearance, intel-

ligent, has a very pleasant disposition and makes good grades in school. He is not physically as strong as the average boy his age. Recently, we moved to a n e i g ii b > * h ood where the boys are rather rough and like to pick fights. I have

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tried to teach him to avoid trouble, but there have been fights and my boy always comes out second best. These boys can lick him. He knows it and they know it. Consequently, he is always left out of things. They call him a sissy, but he isn’t. He loves all the things other boys play and always had friends in other neighborhoods. Until recently he liked to be in crowds. Now he is losing his selfrespect. He will hardly talk to other kids now, or any one. I gave him a party, but it did no good. All other people like him, but the kids say he can’t fight. Is a boy that age old enough to go all over town by himself? What can I do to help him regain his self-respect. WORRIED MOTHER. Answer—A feeling of physical inferiority is often a help rather than a hindrance to an individual’s success. Just as the sense of touch and hearing becomes more acute when vision is lost, so it often happens that the physically weak build up achievements to compensate for their weakness. You can not move back into the old neighborhood or seek anew one with much profit to four child, for life is full of kaleidoscopic changes and he must learn to adjust himself to them as they come. His job is to learn to live with reality, for when you are gone no one else will make if a business to remove the strains of living from his shoulders.

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Impress upon your child that it is not necessary for him to lick his fellows physically. He can lick them mentally instead. There are lots of ways to outwit bullies who are only cowards struggling to hide the fact with their fists. Encourage his hobbies and let him excel at something which does not require unusual physical strength. I have nothing to suggest for I do not know his tastes. I know another little boy who has done a lot to increase his prestige by building the best miniature airplanes in the neighborhood. He is not a good fighter, but boys come from blocks around to see his airplanes and help him work with them. Instead of giving a large party for your child, pick out one or two boys whom your son could win for pals if he tried. If he is building or making something which they admire, he will not fail to interest them. When a friendly feeling is established over a mutual enthusiasm, your child will lose his fear of their fists, and that is half the battle. It would be better for him to play with boys his own age, or even a little younger so that he will not be overpowered by their size and aggression. Perhaps he would like archery, or skeet, or some other form of aggression which would make him feel like a good fighter in his own field. I don’t know how' reliable he is or how safely he can travel all over town alone. In general, the more things he does for himself, the more decisions he makes alone, the more responsibilities he assumes, the better. Each success helps to build up the feeling of superiority which he needs to offset his fear of physical inferiority. a a a Dear Jane Jordan —I am a girl of 16 and I used to go steady with a boy of 19. Lately he has been going with another girl and says he doesn't know' whether he likes her Or not but he knows he likes me. Don’t you think if he likes me he would try to be with me once a week no matter what the other girl says? A BROKEN HEARTED MISS. Answer—Usually if a boy likes a girl he manages to see her pretty often, but there is no sense in expecting stability in a boy of 19. His job is to get acquainted and so is yours. Give him competition and plenty of it, and don't worry about where he goes.